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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar Marshall Alumnus Marshall Publications Spring 4-1974 Marshall Alumnus, Vol. XV, Spring, April, 1974, No. 1 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/marshall_alumnus Recommended Citation Marshall University, "Marshall Alumnus, Vol. XV, Spring, April, 1974, No. 1" (1974). Marshall Alumnus. 38. http://mds.marshall.edu/marshall_alumnus/38 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Marshall Publications at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Marshall Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Roamin' the Big Green Frantic, but fun ... BY C. T. MITCHELL You'll find out why when you read the story on Bob Daniels elsewhere in this issue. It's semi-annual "crunch" time in Old Main 115 as we put *** *** *** together the spring magazine and the March Green Line almost simultaneously. Because of printing schedules-it takes longer It's been an even better season for another basketball to print the magazine-the deadlines for both publications fall team-Marshall's Green Gals, who knocked off Fairmont to within the same week. The same holds true for the fall win their fourth West Virginia Women's Intercollegiate Ath magazine and the September Green Line. letic Association basketball championship in five years. That It's frantic, but fun. · moved their season record to 17 wins and five losses and put them in the mid western regional playoffs. The Green Gals *** *** *** and their exploits also are described elsewhere in this issue. A lot of good things are happening as this is being written *** *** *** on this last day of February, with spring just around the corner. The greatest of course, was the delivery of Marshall's Turning to another area, President Barker recently formal medical school application to the director of the announced the first allocations from the Forward Marshall Veterans Administration in Washington. Making the delivery, campaign with funds going to the business program, student in addition to President Barker, were Governor Moore and financial aid, distinguished lectureships, research, the Oral Senators Randolph and Byrd-an impressive delegation in any History of Appalachia project, and alumni affairs. Thus we are beginning to see some excellent results from a campaign which league. To say they received a warm reception would be an understatement. Now we'll cross our fingers and await the is shaping up as one of Marshall's most successful efforts. As of the moment, cash and pledges stand at about VA's decision. $440,000 in the three-year campaign that was kicked off only last July. Obviously, prospects for meeting the $495,000 goal *** *** *** are excellent. We're especially pleased with the response of alumni to the Also on the bright side is the allocation of $100,000 to campaign. Marshall grads have sent in cash and pledges of Marshall by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency about $85,000-which has to be some sort of record for alumni and Corrections. This will permit us to start a two-year degree giving to the old school. program in criminal justice and four-year degree programs in On the other hand, I'm personally disappointed that the corrections and in law enforcement. The new programs are $85 ,000 has come from fewer than 500 alumni-a relative expected to be in operation by next fall. handful when you consider there are more than 21,000 of us. Forward Marshall is designed with one purpose in mind--to *** *** *** give Marshall the "edge" it needs to become an outstanding university. My own goals are somewhat more optimistic than As this is being written, the Thundering Herd is in the final the official goals in the Forward Marshall drive. stage of what has been a surprisingly successful basketball I believe we can hit $750,000 in this campaign. And I campaign. believe we can see thousands of Marshall alumni helping the Although this hasn't been a 20-victory season, it has been a university reach its goals, rather than the few hundreds who winning season-to the amazement of many, including yours have given their support so far. I believe the alumni can put truly. This was supposed to be, and in a sense has been, a twice as much into the campaign as the $85 ,000 contributed rebuilding season for the Herd after the loss of such as Mike so far. D'Antoni, Randy Noll, Bill James and Ty Collins from last Most of all, I believe we can see the day when West year's NIT team. Lacking a "star" and plagued with injuries Virginians mean Marshall when they refer to "The University." and inexperience, the Herd has had a most successful season. Let's give it a try. 2 MARSHALL VOL.XV April 1974 No. 1 Published for Marshall Alumni by the Marshall University Alumni Association in cooperation with the Marshall Office of University Relations CONTENTS Roamin' the (Big) Green 2 'Hillbilly' Professor 4 Alumni Weekend 8 Football •74 .. 9 Marshall Album IO Bob Daniels 14 Green Gals . 17 Memorial Student Center and Memories of Shawkey . 20 Alumni Report . 22 Alumni Tours . 23 STAFF: Editor, Everett N. Roush; Managing Editor, C. T. Mitchell; Editorial Assistants, Don Meadows and Jack Seamonds; Sports, Sam Stanley; Production, David R. Collins, Shirley Dyer, Georgia Childers. COVER: Color photograph by Bob Campbell. Back cover: A busy spider provided a glowing mantle for the bust of John Marshall. Photograph by Joan Mitchell ('53). YOUR ADDRESS: Changing your address? Please let the Office of Alumni Affairs know about it. This will insure that you continue to receive the Marshall Alumnus and the Green Line. Simply write the Office of Alumni Affairs, Marshall University, Huntington, W. Va. 25701. 3 'Hillbilly' Professor BY DON MEADOWS professional hillbilly on campus. Some of them don't like it, but that doesn't bother me." · He's not your average American university professor. You'd Being "just me" can have its drawbacks. One such incident never suspect he's the chairman of a major department. happened in Chicago. The lines on his face are deep. They hint of long, hard "I was up there one Easter back several years ago to be hours under a blazing sun. Outside the classroom he usually interviewed for a job with the American Medical Association drags at a Lucky Strike, unfiltered. as a human ecologist. I'd already been interviewed, and it was His suit may be neatly pressed. Just as often, it is wrinkled. a cold, rainy, blustery Easter morning. The dining room in the His tie may be neatly snug around his collar. It's just as likely hotel didn't open until late, and l got up-I tend to be an early to be loose. His sandy brown, graying hair might be neatly riser. combed. Or, it might not. Obviously he doesn't spend a great "Well, the hotel was at the edge of the downtown ghetto deal of time worrying about his appearance. area, where a lot of Appalachians lived. I was standing on the It's not that he doesn't care, but other things are more street corner, trying to decide whether to go this way or that important. way. l had a raincoat that I'd stuffed under my arm. It was all His office is a mess. There's no other way to describe it. It wrinkled when I put it on, and I didn't have a hat on and the is a jumble of books, papers, tape recorders, office duplicating rain was coming down and my hair was all out of shape. A machines, record players, albums, extension speakers. policeman walked up and I started to ask him where a good "Sit down if you can find a place," he tells the caller, his restaurant was. right hand making a sweeping motion. You find a chair and "He said, 'Where you from, boy?' "make yourself to home." "I told him I was from West Virginia and was looking for a "My first question, Dr. Simpkins: 'Are you for real?'" place to eat. Then he said, 'Maybe you'd better come down to He laughs, exposing two rows of uneven teeth. The laughter the station with me.' stops and he looks you in the eye. "I asked him what for, and he said , 'Well, you're here and "I don't know. Sometimes, l really don't know," he replies. you don't know where you're going. I think I'd better Make no mistake about it. 0. Norman Simpkins, professor investigate.' and chairman of the Department of Sociology and "I said, 'Fine, but can't you investigate here-I've got Anthropology at Marshall University, is for real. identification cards.' But, he took me on in to the station. For the last 11 years he's been teaching one of Marshall's "After a little discussion I explained to them who I was and most popular courses-Appalachian Culture. It was the first what I was doing up there and so on. They apologized. Well, course on the culture of Appalachia to be developed in the the policeman was going off duty in a few minutes and we got nation. to talking and he took me out to breakfast. The reason for the program's success is Simpkins' total "Over breakfast he told me about the trouble the hillbillies devotion to it. He is Appalachian to the core-and proud of it. up there had caused.